Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-08-01
FROM WASHINGTON.

pGny, who will establish works III TINS coun-
try, and, Of course, bring their own labor
with them.
The Potomac Steamboat Company has
tried hard to get steamer to take the place
of the disabled Arrowsmith on the Colonial
Beach line, but has been unable to do SO,
all the good boats being engaged for the
season, and the company, very properly, re-
fusing the offers of all boats about the safety
of which there is the least doubt.
AS the bylaws of the Washington Monu-
ment Association require all vacancies in
the board of directors thereof to be filled
within ten day, meeting of the association
was held here last Saturday at which Senator
Sherman was elected to fill the vacancy &C.
casioned by the death of the late General
Dunn. The association having small IN.
expended sum spent it in the erection OF q
porter's lodge. They have now not cent
in their treasury, and don't want any, as the
monument has been turned over to the
Government, which now has to pay ali the
expenses thereof.
The president of the Virginia democratic
association of this city, will head small
delegation thereof to the Virginia State
democratic convention to meet in Roanoke
next Thursday.
Mrs. Senator Logan arrived here yester-
day evening. Dr. Hamilton has examined
her and finds that her shoulder joint was
dislocated by her recent carriage accident,
and was not properly replaced. He will
give her chioroform this afternoon and re-
set the Joint
The Northwestern friends of Postmaster
General Villas are engaged in an effort to
boom him for the next Vice-Presidency, but
as the South has hand in that business,
and as MIR. Villas has said he could not deny
ex.representative Gibsons statement to the
effect that he had told him that no Exon.
federate holding a minor place in the Post.
office Department could be promoted, it is
hardly possible the boom referred to can
materaliZe.
The Secretary of the Treasury to-day ap-
pointed Henry Richardson to be storekeeper
in Hartford county, Md.
The changes in the federal officers con-
nected with steam going vessels have been
very slow and very few, for the assigned
reason that not only property, but lives, de-
pended upon the efficiency of those officers
but changes in them also are becoming
more frequent as the term of the admins
tration approaches its close. Ii the changes
referred to had been made soon after the
democrats came into power, as was expect
ed, nothing would have been said or even
thought of Them but each one is row the
subject of newspaper discussion.
The New York JPorlds correspondent in
this city, in that paper of to-day, says the
administration is making concessions to the
members of the democratic party who have
been frank enough to express their dsap-
proval of its civil service policy, and men,
tions as case in point that 1T has just gwen
q consulate to son of MIR. j. 5. Barbour.
This will bs news to those who have known
Mr.. Barbour from his boyhood, as they
have never before heard that he had son.
The talk about the members of the board
of District Commissioners Is increasing, and
is assuming more and more scandalous
tone. Every attempt so far made to make
mugWumpery 81 success has signAlly failed,
and, according TO all accounts, the President
himself, late though it be- has also, at last.
arrived Mt this conclusion.
Representative Stahlnecker democrat of
New York, is here to-day. He says thai
Governor Hill, of that State, can get the
united democratic and labor vote thereof,
and that some Of the leaders OF the latter
organization are his best and most reliable
friends and supporters.
Patriotic Order of Sons OF America, which
recently organized in San Francisco, sort
of know nothing order, opposed to further
foreign free immigration and also to Catholic
ism, has several large and growing lodges
in this city. An officer of one these lodges
recently went over to Alexandria and or
ganized lodge there, among the members
of which are some we'll known residents of
that city.
While all the republican internal revenue
collectors have been removed, nearly all the
republican employees in the internal reve-
nue. bureau here still retain their places.
Constant efforts to Dust them and replace
them with good and efficient democrats have
been made ever since the advent of the
democratic administration, but as yet, with
out success. 1t il now said, however, that
in consequence Of the change that seems to
have come over the spirit of the administra-
TONS dreamsin respect offs such matters, some,
atleast, OF the employees referred to will soon
be discharged and theirplaces be given to men
who desire democratic success at the next
election. There are seven republican chiefs
of division in the bureau. each with salary
of 81, 200.
The President has signed commissions for
the following officers of the navy, recently
promoted Lieuts. B. o. Scott and W. r. A.
Rooney Lieuts. Junior grade) B. w.
Hodges, II. o. Dunn, Albert Gleaves, Il. G.
Wakenshaw and e. E. Wright ; Ensigns
VIM. Mckay, T. c. Fenton, w. W. elmer,
Geo. L. Slocum, H. A. Bispham, r. l.. Rus
sell, Glennie Tarbox, w. G. Miller, Jos.
Strauss, E. W. Eberle, ]. P. McGuinness,
V. 0. Chase, G. w. Kline. A. G. DietfeDbach,
David S. Mes, C. NJ. Mccormick, Armstead
Rust, ]. E. Shindel. c. S. Stanworth, George
R. Evans, r. E. Coontz and ]. G. Tawre-
sey.
TuRoUGu FREIGHT LINEs.-Mr. Frank Thorn
son, Vice President of The Penns ylvania Railroad,
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